186 articles
Nic Jones
Nic Jones hasn't been the same since he first heard the Art Ensemble Of Chicago and Anthony Braxton's quartet with Kenny Wheeler around 40 years ago. He lives in Oxfordshire, quietly and curiously.
Reviewed: Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson | Jon Irabagon | Andrea Rinciari
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells (Pyroclastic Records PR 40)
This is the Courvoisier/Halvorson duo's third collaboration on record, and as with the Jon...
Reviewed: Gato Barbieri | Fred Frith, Shelley Burgon | Jacqueline Kerrod, Joe Morris
Gato Barbieri: Standards 2 (Red Records RRCD 1233482)
By the time this album was recorded in Rome in the spring of 1968 the Argentinian Barbieri had...
Reviewed: George Cables | Josephine Davies | Anita Ellis, Carol Lawrence
George Cables: I Hear Echoes (High Note HCD 7356)
Having over the years recorded with Art Pepper, and among other things put out a number...
Reviewed: Sara Serpa | Sun Ra | Savina Yannatou, Floros Floridis, Barry Guy, Ramón López
Sara Serpa: Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia Records)
Sara Serpa is a singer of a different order who loosely embodies a strand of "the tradition" in...
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Reviewed: Karen Borca & Paul Murphy | Tania Grubbs Quintet | Toms Rudzinkis Quartet
Karen Borca & Paul Murphy: Entwined (Relative Pitch RPR1198)
As if there weren't already enough bassoon and drums duos in the world (IRONY ALERT)...
Sonny Clark, Fragile Virtuoso
Pianist Sonny Clark, given the regularity with which he - in common with quite a few others - recorded for Blue Note either as...
Reviewed: Paul Dunmall, Kevin Figes, Julie Tippetts | Pinky Winters | Nano Brothers | Anna Webber | Hubbub | Miguel Zenón | Wayne Escoffery
The arguably embattled "jazz community" continues on a path which, in keeping with the rest of the so-called music industry, seems intent on the...
Reviewed: David Haney | Scarla O’Horror | Anna Marie | Marilyn Maye
David Haney: four albums on Cadence and New York Jazz Stories
Pianist David Haney's put out a number of albums this time round, including appearances...
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Yours Truly, John
John Stubblefield was of a jazz generation that was thoroughly grounded in the music’s values yet open to new developments, in his case with...
Reviewed: Steve Baczkowski | Niklas Fite & Gunter Christmann | Sentient Beings | Keir Cooper + Eleanor Westbrook | Kuba
As what passed for summer in the UK turns distinctly to autumn / the downpour season, the tide of jazz-related "product" proves impervious to...
Petra van Nuis: singing beyond the words
Petra van Nuis is a Chicago-based jazz vocalist whom Bruce Crowther described as "an exceptionally gifted singer with a light yet subtly textured sound"...
Louis Armstrong: Louis In London
First audio release for 1968 BBCTV set featuring Tyree Glenn, Joe Muranyi, Marty Napoleon, Buddy Catlett and Danny Barcelona
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